Yet Improving

The very excited blonde lady owns the resort where this is taken. She’s super excited because this is the closest they’ve ever come in before. Everyone else is less excited because this was taken crack of dawn; when blonde lady realized how close the whales were coming, she ran around waking everybody up to see it.

A good, wholesome post.

I’d be so stoked to see that in person.

The resort lady has the correct level of excitement for watching a bubblenet THAT CLOSE.

From above the Blue Whale almost looks like a submarine...........

sees earth's biggest animal: huh. that is big

Not only is it Earth's biggest animal, it's (as far as we know) the biggest animal to ever exist!

Bigger than any dinosaur, bigger than any plesiosaur. How lucky we are to get to see it!

thinkpads and glocks are the whales and dolphins of engineering

evolved convergently but one is a peaceful filter feeder and the other is a being of pure violence

Are you feeling it

Everyone shut up and look at this carving of a whale from the 1200-600 CE Chumash culture

Just The Largest Animal To Ever Live on Our Planet Coming Up .......

Unmute !

OMG

This makes me so happy and I don’t even know why.

Encounter in the Greenhouse

Just found out moose can dive as deep as 20 feet (6m) for aquatic vegetation. Can you imagine like, being a diver, and you’re 20 feet underwater, it’s murky, and you run into a moose

A

MOOSE!!!!

This is, by the way, one of the reasons that a regular predator of the moose is the orca whale.

Sperm whale mimics a spinning diver.

Humans: *encounters Earth’s Largest Carnivore, who would could swallow them whole, probably*

Human: … Spin?

Earth’s largest carnivore, with a brain that weighs almost as much as this naked beach ape*: SPIN!

Whale powering up to the surface and breaching

I love how you have no fucking idea of the scope and majesty you are about to witness until you realize just what KIND of whale is zooming up to the surface and how fucking FAST that thing has to be going to catch that kind of air time.

Whales are scary fast!

This is fucking terrifying

big nope 

I would’ve been so shook

Awww whale.

Whale I didn’t see that coming

it would’ve scared the fuck out of me holy shit that’s big

So for anybody who doesn’t know, that ring of bubbles you see coming up before the humpback does is a “net” that the whale creates by swimming in a circle and blowing the bubbles from its blowhole. The bubble net disorients the krill/small fish/whatever and corrals them into one spot so that the whale can lunge up and feed as you see it doing. It’s most often done cooperatively in groups, and a whole bunch of whales will lunge up at once.

In other news that is one deep harbor, holy shit.

I wish their was sound

I’m the person trying to pet it.